Asbury Park's Frank Budd left a lasting mark on track & field community

7:48 PM,
May 1, 2014

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When John Morton got the telephone call late Tuesday night that Frank Budd had died, his thoughts drifted back more than 70 years, to a time long before the native son introduced himself to the world at the 1960 Olympics.

"We went back to 1943 in Asbury Park Village, where our families were neighbors," said Morton, a lifelong city resident.

That was back when Budd was battling polio, his mother nursing him back to health with homemade remedies. And by the time he graduated from Asbury Park High School in 1958, Budd had willed himself into a multi-sport standout, earning All-State honors in ...